Archive for the ‘Networking’ Category

Do you follow through?

Posted on March 17th, 2010 by by carl

Something that I’ve found people often don’t do properly during their career is follow through with things to completion. One specific area is with referrals. I can think of numerous times where someone will ask me for help referring them to someone – which I’ll typically do – and then a few months later when [...]

The false sense of security that the Internet provides

Posted on March 14th, 2010 by by carl

The Internet provides a false sense of security to job searchers as it allows us to think we’re accomplishing something by hiding behind our keyboard and firing off resumes, tweets, Facebook friend requests and using other online tools ad nauseum…and making us feel like we’ve accomplished something.
Firing off dozens of resumes to hiring managers in [...]